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  1. Central Bank of China, 100 yuan note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    100 yuan note issued by the Central Bank of China acquired by Peter Victor when he lived as a refugee in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. It features the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China, who promoted the establishment of a national banking system. This bank is now known as the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Peter, 18, left Berlin for Shanghai in 1938 to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United Stat...

  2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden Central Register (Group A-Ø)

    Consits of the alphabetical (phonetic) register of refugees with detailed information about an each refugee, including both Jews and resistance fighters and their families. There are no related files to the register, but the information on the cards is quite unique. This collection contains the most detailed and systematic overview of Danish refugees in Sweden.

  3. Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by an Austrian refugee

    1. Alfred and Emma Heumann Pisko family collection

    Factory-printed Star of David badge worn by a relative of the donor between 1941 and 1945. On September 1, 1941, all Jews in the Reich six years of age or older were required to wear a badge, a yellow Star of David with a black-outline and the word “Jew” printed inside the star in German, to identify themselves. The badge was used to stigmatize and control the Jewish population. Prior to this large-scale decree, identification requirements for Jewish individuals varied by locality and administration. As Germany annexed territory, the same or similar decrees were enforced in other countries,...

  4. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Wooden trunk used by John and Alice Redlich Fink for travel to the US. Alice was a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany after the war. Alice left Nazi Germany in 1938 for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, left for the Bergen-Belsen dp camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp...

  5. Silver plated serving spoon brought with a Jewish Polish refugee family

    1. Izak and Rywa Manski and Gitl Rozenzweig families collection

    Silver plated serving spoon brought by Rywa Manski when she left Lida, Poland with her three children, traveling via Japan, and arriving in Seattle, WA on May 7, 1941.

  6. Gold plated dinner knife brought with a Jewish Polish refugee family

    1. Izak and Rywa Manski and Gitl Rozenzweig families collection

    Gold plated table knife brought by Rywa Manski when she left Lida, Poland with her three children, traveling via Japan, and arriving in Seattle, WA on May 7, 1941.

  7. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Colorful, enameled, porcelain vase acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Shanghai, China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained the...

  8. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Silver rickshaw and runner figurine acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Shanghai, China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained th...

  9. Formal, patterned kimono and shibori obi owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn564915
    • English
    • a: Height: 63.750 inches (161.925 cm) | Width: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm) b: Height: 106.500 inches (270.51 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

    Patterned kimono and obi acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Kobe, Japan, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained their transit vis...

  10. Pair of Japanese geta owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn564916
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) b: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Depth: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    Pair of wooden geta with fabric thongs acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Kobe, Japan, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained the...

  11. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Silver alloy, castle-shaped spice box from Poland, carried by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family as they traveled through the Soviet Union and Japan to China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Later, the box was given to Sara by her mother, Slawa, as a wedding gift in Canada, where the family had settled in 1949. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in S...

  12. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Decorative, Zee Sung Silver bowl acquired by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family in Shanghai, China, where her family fled using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because they were considered wealthy landowners. Slawa, Hirsz, and Sara later joined them. Having obtained their...

  13. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto

    1. Sara Kupinski Cohen collection

    Hand-illustrated card carried by Sara Kupinski’s (later Cohen) family as they fled from Poland, via Lithuania, the Soviet Union, Japan, and China, during the Holocaust, eventually settling in Canada. They were able to flee by using Japanese and Dutch transit visas supplied by diplomats in Soviet-occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Sara lived outside of Lida, Poland (now Belarus) with her parents, Eliasz and Slawa, brother, Hirsz, and uncle, Samuel. Following Germany and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Poland in September 1939, Eli and Samuel fled to Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) because the...

  14. Grapevine clipping from a vineyard near a refugee route in France

    Grew in a vineyard in the Pyrenees, near the route that the refugees followed when they fled France during the Second World War.

  15. Two dried flower bundles preserved by an Austrian Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Erich Kupferberg family collection

    Dried flowers saved in an envelope by Erich Kupferberg, who at age seven was sent by his parents Baruch and Hedwig from Vienna to London in early 1939 on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany on March 12, 1938, anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to ostracize the Jewish population. The Kristallnacht pogrom that November was especially brutal in Vienna. Most synagogues were destroyed and Jewish shops and homes were vandalized. Great Britain agreed to admit refugee children under 17 from Germany and German annexed territories and aid societies c...

  16. Boy Scout pennant with fleur de lis and 1914-1939 owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Harry Froehlich and Isaak Judas families collection

    Boy Scout penant that belonged to Harry Froehlich as a child.

  17. Set of tefillin carried by a young German Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn530432
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm)

    Tefillin pair taken by thirteen year old Kurt Rosenbaum when he was sent by his parents on Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Kurt eventually traveled to Portland, OR and was subsequently adopted by the Goldsmith family. In September 1945, he was drafted into the US Army and sent to Okinawa, Japan.

  18. Monogrammed gray velvet tefillin bag carried by a young German Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Gray velvet tefillin pouch used by thirteen year old Kurt Rosenbaum to carry his tefillin when he was sent by his parents on a Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Kurt eventually traveled to Portland, OR and was subsequently adopted by the Goldsmith family. In September 1945, he was drafted into the US Army and sent to Okinawa, Japan.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Finnish refugee children; US embassy; Propaganda; Smashed windows

    1021 VVV (09:26:42): Finnish Refugee Children at Falun, Dalecarlia, September 1944. Finnish refugee children's home at Falun. General view of home. Children dancing in small circle. CUs, children. CU, young matron of home. CU, small Finnish child. LS, children on lawn in front of the house, running into the house. CU, Finnish boy sitting on steps. 1021 parts of AA and ZZZ (09:28:45): AA: Various EXT shots of building of "general interest" to MOT cameramen, including the American Embassy in Stockholm, the American Legation, and a Nazi building. Shots of entrances and signs. INT, Press Depart...

  20. National Society of Colonial Daughters essay award with case won by a Polish Jewish refugee

    1. Nina S. Merrick collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521500
    • English
    • 1949
    • a: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Medal and presentation case awarded in 1949 to twenty year old Nina Schuster by the National Society of Colonial Daughters "for a patriotic essay of superior merit, titled "The Contribution of Our Immigrants." Nina was originally from Rotkitno, Poland, where she lived with her parents Yeshua and Masha, and siblings Yitzthak and Chana. Rokitno was occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Nina's mother was arrested and hanged. Nina and her family were moved to Berisov ghetto (Barysau, Belarus.) In August 1942, Nina escaped to the for...